Mar 22, 2009

The great Gwen Ifill, the managing editor and moderator for Washington Week (PBS) and a senior correspondent for The NewsHour, is delivering the closing keynote address. Ifill is the author of the recent best-seller, “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.” Aside from Obama, the book also deals with black rising politicians like Duval Patrick, Cory Booker and Artur Davis, who is running for the governor of Alabama. “Talk about audacity of hope,” quipped Ifill, This is her first book. She said that as she wrote, she talked to several authors, to get advice on how to write. Some told her to write early in the morning. Others told her to write at night. For everyone she interviewed, there was a different story. “I finally decided that I was going to have to figure out how to do it myself,” Ifill said. More to come.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Meet the Bloggers

Two journalists at very different stages in their careers are covering this year’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Check this site often to read their take on what’s happening at the conference, what they’re seeing and learning and who’s saying what.

Ernie Suggs

Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and a 2009 Nieman Fellow

Lois Beckett

Lois Beckett, a Harvard senior, has interned for newspapers in Pennsylvania and West Africa and, most recently, for a Bombay fashion magazine.

We’d like to hear from you

Are you attending the 2009 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism and writing about your experience? If so, please send us the link to your blog or online reports. We invite you to join the conversation.

Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism

This premier annual event is for journalists eager to enhance their powers of observation and inquiry, sharpen reporting and analytical skills, and write with literary flair. Open to the public, the conference is the meeting place for mid-career writers, broadcasters, editors, and producers who are working in every genre and every medium.